Strategy & Vision

• Define and lead a multi-year platform strategy that accelerates AI modernization, reduces complexity, and maximizes operational efficiency across API management and data replication capabilities.
• Partner with architecture, security, and product leaders to translate reference architectures and patterns into actionable roadmaps for platform evolution and cloud failover readiness.

API Platforms

• Own health and evolution for a state-of-the-art API platform ensuring secure, scalable traffic management, active-active/multi-region configurations, and robust observability/alerting.
• Plan and execute upgrades and feature adoption in line with vendor roadmaps and user needs
• Drive operational excellence and m odernization initiatives to improve reliability and deployment throughput.

Data Platforms

• Lead team to deliver reliable, low-latency replication to modern cloud data stores.
• Set a vision that progressively reduces dependence on replication as application teams move "gold copy" data into modern stores; guide adoption and education to support the transition.

Other considerations:

• Own SLAs/SLOs and resiliency response for platform services
• Ensure compliance with security standards, identity/authentication requirements, and governance
• Engage product owners, application teams, and enterprise stakeholders to prioritize outcomes and communicate progress and risks.
• Lead and develop technical specialists; build a learning culture, mentor engineers, and steward talent pipelines.
• Develops strong partners with stakeholders to resolve production and implementation issues in a timely manner and supports/drives escalations where required to enable rapid delivery.
• Leads the planning, development and implementation of a new technical product or multiple products with cross-divisional impact
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum of five years related work experience. Two years of leading large cross-functional project teams preferred. Supervisory experience preferred
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience required
• Technical leadership in platform engineering at scale, including API gateways and data integration/replication
• Familiarity with OAuth 2.0, multi-region/active-active architectures, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and SRE practices.

If you're passionate about building secure, reliable platforms that accelerate developer outcomes while leveraging AI and modern technologies-and you thrive on mentoring bright engineers -we'd love to talk.

Special Factors
Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission-we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work:

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.